https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.1352
L. Fleck, Polish biologist from Lvov, created a philosophy of science that was anticipation of Thomas Kuhn’s theory of paradigms. My article is an attempt to analyse Fleck’s conception from a hermeneutical point of view. I’m trying to show arguments that his perspective was deeply hermeneutical, among others because of the role and meaning of his crucial concepts, such as style of thinking (Denkstil) or collectivity of thinking (Denkkollektiv). Such categories as well as his taking seriously into the consideration the nonscientifical parts of human knowledge show explicitly Fleck’s affinities to the hermeneutical thinking about sciences. This can also be seen in his refusal of any metaphysics and any metaphysical interpretation of scientifical results, as pretending to “disclose the deepest reality”, which for Fleck, in analogy to Heidegger, Gadamer or Rorty, did not open the door to any relativism of “anything goes”. His texts are an important source of inspiration for everyone who deals with the phenomenon of knowledge from the hermeneutical point of view.
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